The continuitiy between online culture and offline realities is well illustrated by this latest and very active news event: Prophet Mahommed cartoon reaction in Denmark.
The web site reports that Muslim hackers have been quite active defacing Danish and some American web sites. An excerpt from Prophet Mohammed protest spreads on the digital ground. Hundreds of cyber attacks against Danish and western webservers spreading rage in the name of Allah. ZoneH.org
What came out from the survey is what Zone-H very much expected: the use of the Internet as an instrument to spread out cyber protests related to what happens in the worldwide context. Several hacker groups from different Muslim nations united their forces in order to produce the larger amount of damages in Danish and more generally western web-servers. During the attacks they promoted both moderate and extremists manifestos through the defacement of the homepages promoting also a boycott campaign throughout the digital Ummah against Danish products.
One major difference between the cultural online-offline divide is certainly the widening of the copycat’s playground and the accessibility of the ‘locations’ for attacks. If you scroll to the bottom of the blog entry, you will see a list of ‘other’ hackers who ‘do it for fun’ instead of political reasons!
